Prep School Entrance per borough

Private Prep Schools

Prep (Preparatory) schools are those that cater for students up to the age of 13 to ‘prepare’ learners for school entrance to the public (expensive and exclusive schools for 13-18-year-olds) and independent secondary schools.

Many of these private schools are members of the Independent Schools Council (ISC). This is a non-profit organisation representing about 80% independent schools in the UK (in 2011).

Independent schools that belong to the ISC are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) according to a framework agreed upon between the various assessment bodies including the DfE and Ofsted.

The best way to search for school options is to have a look at the schools in your borough and work from there. You can then find the Website and Admissions pages for these schools either through the below links or by going to our various pages like:

London Prep School Guide

London Prep School Admissions

As each private school manages their own admission procedures, these vary greatly. Most private schools are however academically selective and administer some kind of assessment.

For children, up to 7, a prep school would usually ‘assess’ prospective students through an interview and a taster day at the school. There are however schools the make use of 7+ formal assessments.

London Boroughs

There are 32 boroughs in the 33 local authority districts in Greater London. The 33rd is the City of London, not technically a borough. These 32 boroughs are as follow:

City of London (not a London borough, but local authority district)

City of Westminster

Kensington and Chelsea

Hammersmith and Fulham

Wandsworth

Lambeth

Southwark

Tower Hamlets

Hackney

Islington

Camden

Brent

Ealing

Hounslow

Richmond upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames

Merton

Sutton

Croydon

Bromley

Lewisham

Greenwich

Bexley

Havering

Barking and Dagenham

Redbridge

Newham

Waltham Forest

Haringey

Enfield

Barnet

Harrow

Hillingdon

100 Books children should read before leaving primary school

TES and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers’ top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school. Here are the results.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahls

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Stig of the Dump by Clive King

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Iron Manby Ted Hughes

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne

Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

Green Eggs and Hamby Dr Seuss

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr

Peace at Last by Jill Murphy

Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd

Not Now Bernard by David Mckee

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Twits by Roald Dahl

I am David by Anne Holm

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

The Paddington series by Michael Bond

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

Five Children and It by E Nesbit

Clockwork by Phillip Pullman

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy

The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes

Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

Sad Book by Michael Rosen

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown

The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Zoo by Anthony Browne

Treasure Island by R L Stevenson

Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

Cinderella by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti

Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman

The Railway Children by E Nesbit

Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman

Kidnapped by R L Stevenson

The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith

Beegu by Alexis Deacon

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

he Mr Men and Little Miss series by Roger Hargreaves

Gentle Giant by Michael Morpurgo

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

Theseus and the Minotaur by David Orme and Wendy Body

The Just William series by Richmal Crompton

On the Way Home by Jill Murphy

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

Angelo by Quentin Blake

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

My Mumby Anthony Browne

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Tunnel by Anthony Browne

Face by Benjamin Zephaniah

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Click Clack Moo: cows that type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

The Early Years at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

Birds Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell

The Weirdstone of Brisingamenby Alan Garner

The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Proysen

The Asterix Series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton

The Giant’s Necklace by Michael Morpurgo

The Kipper series by Mick Inkpen

The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley

The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson

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